Celebrate the best in people. Find the light that shines not on us, but within us, when we trust enough to let it out.
Dewitt JonesMake the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.
Dewitt JonesF8 And Be There! For years, this was the cry of the photojournalist. It meant that 90% of a great photo was being in the right place at the right time. True, it was simplistic, but in the Age of Photoshop, this maxim is too often forgotten. No matter how much you play with the bits and bytes, the best images always start out with a great vision, clearly and cleanly seen.
Dewitt JonesWhat is creativity? Having spent my life in one creative endeavor after another, I can tell you it's not something magical or mystical. It's something very simple. To me, it's just a moment - a moment where we look at the ordinary, but we see the extraordinary. It happens all the time in my photography.
Dewitt JonesSo many things begin to change when you come at the world from that perspective of more than one right answer.
Dewitt JonesIf we want TRULY EXTRAORDINARY VISION then you have to continually expand your horizons, take risks. If we don’t push our edge we’ll never expand our view.. It’s not trespassing to go beyond your own boundaries.
Dewitt JonesStart out by celebrating the best in the situation because it allows us to fall in love with it, which connects us to our passion and emancipates the energy.
Dewitt JonesAs I celebrated what was right with the world, I began to build a vision of possibility, not scarcity. Possibility... always another right answer.
Dewitt JonesOur perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.
Dewitt JonesDo we choose to see possibilities? Do we really believe that they're there? Perception controls our reality, and if we don't believe it, we won't see it.
Dewitt JonesSo we live in an accelerating possibility curve. Perhaps we can't control it, but we can learn to ride it like a surfer on a wave or a bird on a thermal, to use its power to take us where we want to go - to live in uncertainty and yet act with confidence.
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